From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 14 0:13:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACFE9152A5 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 00:13:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1094.bossig.com [208.26.241.94]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA19925; Fri, 14 May 1999 00:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <373BCD11.F8446A54@3-cities.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:13:21 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Roger P. Johnson" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec support in kernel References: <199905140113.UAA12628@fep.hirshfields.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Roger P. Johnson" wrote: > > > I had a 2940U in another computer which I replaced and worked. > > Then I installed the 2940AU where I got the 2940U from and it also > > worked in THAT computer. > > > > I recommend you try to get a different controller, preferably either a > > different model (i.e 2940U) or a different brand all together, like > > Roger suggested. My search in the archives did not find a single person > > that got things to work without changing the card after having got the > > "board not responding" error from their Adaptec. > > > > The 2940U I used is over a year old so I don't know if newer 2940Us > > would work. > > FWIW, older 2940U's and older 2940AU's do/can/have a good chance/ to work > with a Copyright of 1997 or 1996. 2940UW's with Copyright of 1997 or 1996 > still wouldn't work in my cases. Newer ones no way. The bios level for the 2940UW's is up to v1.34.3. Have you tried flashing to this level. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message